Posted on 10/29/2006 2:06:43 PM PST by FairOpinion
Although he is riding into a stiff national head wind favoring Democratic candidates, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger is drawing closer to winning a second term as governor in a state that is arguably the most Democratic in the country.
In California, which has two Democratic U.S. senators, fields the largest Democratic delegation in Congress and is home to the prospective speaker of the House, the Republican former actor is running 18 percentage points ahead of his Democratic challenger, according to a new non-partisan poll.
Only 57 percent of the Democrats polled said they were supporting Angelides, while 21 percent were for Schwarzenegger. Among Republicans, Schwarzenegger leads 86 percent to 4 percent. Independents are siding with the governor by 43 percent to 24 percent.
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IMHO...this merely heralds a Republican blowout coming....
He is heavily aided by the Democratic state legislature. Some of the voters of California have realized what the Dems are like, and although they may think the same way themselves they don't want them to have too much power.
I hope so.
There is a projection, that Republicans have a chance of capturing 5 out of the 8 statewide elected offices in CA. This, after last election Dems were elected to ALL statewide offices.
And it will all be thanks to Arnold. He raised funds for a massive GOTV campaign for Republicans and is making it OK in a very left leaning state, to vote Republican.
California is unique and no trend can be predicted from their politics.
Here is what Angelides stands for, in addition to higher taxes:
"They praised Angelides as a strong supporter of a woman's right to choose; a supporter of same-sex marriage, driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants and universal health care. They say he would be a governor who would "fully fund" education and be a "true environmentalist.''
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1728060/posts?page=9#9
Riiight. Other Republicans should just adopt the Democrat's agenda in toto and they'll be re elected. Good advice.
I am of the opinion that California portends what is really going to happen across the nation next week...but then again, WTF do I know??
By adopting the Democrat platform of big spending, massive debt, global warming and other enviro-whacko nonsense, taxpayer subsidized prescription drugs, government landgrabs, etc.? Let's hope others don't follow this path!
Thank goodness even Arnold recognizes that the "R" next to his name is not consistent with those actions.
Governor asks NAACP not to judge him as Republican"All I'm asking you is one thing," he said. "That is, don't get, you know, kind of maybe sidetracked about an R in front of the name. Or a D in front of the name. Don't pay any attention to the R or the D. Just judge the person."
Tom McClintock needs to win. I've been donating to Tom's campaign and not the CA Republican party.
Perhaps you are right. If so the pollsters should have asked the potential voters whether they were "conservatives or liberals." Polls doing so show as much as 2:1 in favor of conservatives.
You obviously haven't been following CA politics.
Arnold very cleverly gave the Dems lots of crumbs on relatively unimportant issues and vetoed the really important ones, such as universal healthcare, homosexual marriage, drivers licenses to illegals, a number of anti-business propositions. This way he is "bipartisan" but "very Republican" where it counts.
There is this notion out there that the entire nation is on an "anti-GOP trend". Once again, the bicoastal coalition of nutjobs seems to overlook the vast wide stretches of flyover country, and somehow does not think they vote. Or if they do vote, it doesn't count.
Some of these "blue" states are just a little more tinged with "purple" than the pundits allow themselves to speculate upon.
And approved the Kyoto treaty. I forgot about that conservative piece of legislation! You're right, he's a true Republican. /sarc/
Arnold isn't my favorite candidate but I can live with him. Like you said, he has vetoed all the leftist crap (but conceded a few minor issues).
not bucking any trend but the LSM's desired trend for everything to go to the dems
The record. Here are but a few "crumbs" from 2006:
Signed AB 1835 Minimum Wage Increase Signed AB 2911 California Discount Prescription Drug Program Signed AB 32 Greenhouse Gases Signed SB 1368 Electricity: emissions of greenhouse gases. (Out of state purchases) Signed SB 1 Million Solar Roofs Signed SB 201 Sustainable Oceans Act Signed SB 107 Renewable energy Signed AB 2560 Public School Health Center Support Program . Signed SB 437 Health care coverage (expected to cover 94,000 additional children) Signed SB 1534 Public benefits (for illegal aliens) Signed AB 680 English language learners. Signed AB 2600 Vehicles: HOV lanes Signed AB 1613 Vehicles: wireless telephones (Nanny State) Signed SB 1827 Taxation: domestic partners (homosexual agenda) Signed AB 2251 Reproductive Health Care Svcs – Confidentiality of Personal Info Signed AB 2583 Dispensing prescription drugs and devices; refusal to dispense Signed SB 1441 Discrimination: state programs and activities: sexual orientation (homosexual agenda) Signed SB 1654 Voting: absentee ballot (homosexual agenda) Signed AB 1160 Crime. - Gay Panic Defense - Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (homosexual agenda) Signed AB 1207 Code of Fair Campaign Practices (homosexual agenda)
The media has created a "fact" of an anti-GOP election and what do we have to counter it since they do all the polls and "news". Maybe it isn't an anti-GOP year after all. We shall see in a week or so, unless of course there is massive voter fraud in some states that distorts the reality yet again.
As FairOpinion poignantly pointed out recently,
the Dems would have been VERY happy to trade everything Arnold signed,
for the things he has vetoed.
Do the partisan magpies really believe that anyone is still listening to their whimsical screeching from a nearby utility pole?
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